Ezekiel 32:14 KJV
Then will I
make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord
GOD.
Water running like oil just
intrigued me this morning. The passage is a continuing judgment against Egypt made by
Ezekiel while he was in Babylonian captivity. (I can't help but think of that
remnant of Jews who, against Jeremiah's protest, though they could escape
further hardship by fleeing into Egypt .)
The sense is that Egypt has been
troubling the waters of the world with her pompous but, ultimately, impotent claims. They
were once a major player, in world history, but that day would come to an end. Then
the waters of the world, representing peoples and nations, would be turned to a
quiet state. The mud would settle and the “quieted river would run smoothly and
in great peace.”[1]
Whatever unsettling and
stirring Egypt
has done has now long been settled. She remains, (as a testimony to the grace of God) but she remains as little more than a byword on
the history of mankind.
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